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Name: Miles

Age: 36

Location: Portland

About Me: I stan a chaos god, because my life is chaos. I'm mostly a shut in. I don't leave the house much, and talk to myself too much. I do a bunch of art and craft-adjacent things, have the memory of a fruit fly, and will very occasionally go on some adventure up a volcano or something.

About My Journal: Mostly talking about my fic. I post chapter notes there, and occasional meta if I can remember to. Sometimes I talk about RL stuff, which usually only happens if there's something worth talkinga bout.

What I Write: Mostly fanfic. For about the last ten years, it's been pretty much exclusively Norse Marvel. I do write a bit of original fiction as well, about a raccoon dog who is also a TV journalist with a drug problem.

On a more broad scale, I like fiction that pushes boundaries. I like big stories and big ideas, but also like to play with emotions and expectations. If I can find a way to twist and bend a trope, I'll probably do something with it.

I really like writing longform serials. The sort of thing with smaller arcs that tell a larger story. Some of my favourite pieces I've had the most fun with are structured more like manga or comic books in that regard.

What I Don't Write: This is a hard one to quantify. I don't do poetry. I'm not good at it. I don't understand it. I like to joke that I don't to romance, because every time I try it gets twisted and distorted into something else, because the people who live in my head are incapable of being happy.

But on the whole, I don't know. Small emotions are just as valid and fun to explore as big emotions. Epic plot can be just as fun to write as languid slice of life. I've killed off main characters, and married off others. I don't think there are many tropes or genres I haven't explored at the end of the day.

What I Read: In the realm of fanfic, I'll read just about anything if it's in a fandom I'm into. My bookshelves and Audible libraries are mostly non-fiction though. I like memoirs, and collective narratives about real things. Last year, the more memorable ones I read were Endurance (Alfred Lansing), Ranger Confidential (Andrea Lankford), Because Internet (Gretchen McCulloch), Midnight in Chernobyl (Adam Higginbotham), Death in Yellowstone (Lee H Whittlesey), and the Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt (Toby Wilkinson).

I like Hemingway and Victorian fiction. The Cranford series (Elizabeth Gaskell) is a longtime favourite. Hitchhiker's Guide is another one I adore, which probably lent a lot of influence to my early writing. Jurassic Park also led a good amount of influence, I think. But I don't think I picked up a single work of mainstream fiction all last year. I'm terribly hypocritical, or something.

I do read a lot of comic books though. Comics going digital was a blessing because I have no more room for the damn things in my apartment.

What I Don't Read: Fiction, apparently lol. Genuinely though, I can be really picky. I don't like a lot of YA and "mass market" stories. I read Harry Potter once, as it was coming out, and have never felt the desire to revisit it. I like to read the sort of things that I write, and that's hard to find on the shelves of Barnes & Nobel or Powell's a lot of the time.

Could I Edit Someone Else's Work: Probably not.